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Captain America: Civil War made its debut in Japanese theaters this past Friday. To celebrate, Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima illustrated the poster artwork to give out to movie attendees on the opening night.

This weekend's K-Do you know K? Pacifico Yokohama cast event has announced a slate of plans for GoRA and GoHands' K series. This includes a new anime tited K: Seven Stories featuring the return of director/character designer Shingo Suzuki and the ...

By Joseph Luster Be the first of your friends to like this. Posted 5/1/2016 The Konoha Shinden (Konoha New Legend) novels are set to continue with more side adventures set in the Naruto universe. The latest was announced in this year's second volu...

Nikkei Entertainment has released its "Talent Power Ranking" list for 2016. We now have the top 30 list for musical acts. Arashi tops the list for the fifth year in a row. SMAP is #2, rising from last year's #5.

During the recent K-Do you know K? event at the Pacifico Yokohama, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, the event's staff revealed that a brand new K anime project is currently in production. In addition, a stage play and a dance project were also revealed.

J-POP SUMMIT 2016, one of the world's biggest Japanese pop culture events, has announced an exciting and diverse first line-up of music artists set to perform this year. This summer's festival will be highlighted by an exciting 3-day slate of live...

Experience, known for its many dungeon crawler RPGs, announced a new hack and slash title called Yomi wo Saku Hana for Xbox One during the company's 10th anniversary event in Akihabara. [Thanks, Game Jouhou.

Kunio Okawara hails from Inagi City, and the city is quite fond of the renowned mechanical designer, so much that the city itself has revealed two 1/5 scale statues inspired by Mobile Suit Gundam's RX-78-2 Gundam and Char's Zaku II.

For the past few years, Nippon Ichi Software America have added an Experience Inc. developed dungeon-crawling RPG to their annual video game line-up. In 2014 we had Demon Gaze, which took players through a fantasy world on a quest to seal demons.

This is an RSS version of the original article. Please visit www. otakustudy. com for the full post. You are about to battle the final boss, the last barrier in your quest to save the world. It should be an occasion where a whole adventure of deve...

Two years ago, the Fine Brothers released a video titled "YouTubers React to BABYMETAL. " In the clip, various YouTube personalities reacted to BABYMETAL. Now, in a twist, the Fine Brothers are having BABYMETAL react to that video.

Idea Factory's Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force will be debuting in North America on July 26 and in Europe on July 29 for PlayStation 4, and there's a whole new swath of screenshots for you to check out, including the game's first English shots.

Nintendo has revealed a brand new set of Splatoon amiibos. The Squid Sisters, Callie and Marie, will be getting their own amiibos on July 8th in North America and Europe, along with new color variations of the Inkling Boy, Inkling Girl, and Inklin...

In support of areas affected by the Kumamoto earthquake, RADWIMPS' Noda Yojiro (Vo, G) and ONE OK ROCK's Taka (Vo) collaborated for a new version of "by my side," and the song is being distributed via digital service platform "Fannect".

Knights of Sidonia was also recently adapted into an excellent anime series that is readily available on places like Netflix. Following on from this anime adaptation for Knights of Sidonia, Blame! is currently getting the same treatment from Polyg...

Last week we wrote about Rakuten's new drone delivery service for golf courses. And now comes another great example of how people in Japan are showing us what drones can do. Hopefully the government is also watching and learning that drones are ex...

What is up with Mayoiga? Like listening to your voice? The longest, most cohesive conversation was the cast arguing for two minutes trying to remember Chuunibyou no Ass-bender's name. No one cared that the guy fell off a cliff.

For those mahou shoujo who have wished to be beach body ready, anime fashion brand SuperGroupies has teams up with "cute for adults" fashion brand MIIA for a pair of soul gem motif, "constellation pattern" Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi Madoka Mag...

By Viet Do . May 1, 2016 . 11:05am If you have somehow not loaded up your Steam client since Friday, Steam Store is running a giant "Anime Weekend" Sale, essentially featuring Japanese titles at great prices.

MANGAKA SPIRITS Wall-of-Fame March 2016 "Mangaka Spirits" (Manga + Ka = A person who draws manga) captures the spirit of sketching, drawing and all forms of artwork by ordinary people. In this Wall-of-Fame, we feature the artworks of aspiring arti...

The time has almost come for the PlayStation 4 to be graced with a proper [email protected] presence, and Bandai Namco has seen fit to remind us all of that fact, with some new gameplay footage straight from the Nico Nico Choukaigi event this week...

On April 29, DAIGO (38) and Kitagawa Keiko (29) held their wedding ceremony and reception at Grand Prince Hotel Shin-Takanawa. The following day, the couple updated their blogs and expressed their gratitude for everyone's support.

'乙女のピンチ！' (Otome no Pinchi! ) "Maidens in a Pinch! " I suppose that the supply shortage subplot was going to come up sooner or later-as it must for any story involving a ship lost at sea and far from home.

Universal Studios Japan set a record of nearly 14 million visitors for fiscal 2015, its fifth consecutive year-on-year attendance increase, according to operator USJ Co. The Osaka theme park saw 13. 9 million people through its gates for the fisca...

'今 僕に出来ることを' (Ima Boku ni Dekiru Koto wo) "What I Can Do For Now" When the chips are down, when he's backed into a corner, when everything's against him-that's when a hero shines. Izuku is a hero. Izuku, You're Cool!